From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263996AbTLOTAX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:00:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264093AbTLOTAW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:00:22 -0500 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:52918 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263996AbTLOTAP (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:00:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:58:36 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: Marcus Blomenkamp Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: r8169 GigE driver problem, locks up 2.4.23 NFS subsystem Message-ID: <20031215195836.A17449@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20031213140106.A24017@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <200312131440.28071.Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de> <20031214144055.A4664@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <200312151124.15143.Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200312151124.15143.Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de>; from Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:24:15AM +0100 X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcus Blomenkamp : [...] > I added more dummy printks and intermediate result: it does not return from > function 'rtl8169_hw_phy_config()' > > This routine messes up the card itself, as a reset/reboot into 2.4 does not > revitalize it. I definitively have to power-cycle the machine. Daube. Thanks for the work. If you have some spare time, you can try the patches available at: (a README describes the order). They will not fix the issue but I would not be too surprized if something breaks before "rtl8169_hw_phy_config" appears. I'll be away from my computer until wednesday evening. -- Ueimor